Is The Meadowlands Becoming Monticello South?

[theokodjak26]

My goodness. The 4th race at M was a $5,000-$7,500 claimer. What the heck is going on?

[Bitter Truth]

And they only race 'TWO' days a week.

[toothman]

their 8000 dollar purse is a lot better than monti, saratoga and pcd....the cheapies will flock to the swamp....

[Papillon]

My goodness. The 4th race at M was a $5,000-$7,500 claimer. What the heck is going on?

it has been this way for a few years this time of year

Freehold North/Monti South--same thing

[ROOSTER COGBURN]

You cant fill races with integrity. Aint enough horses to go around

[Bitter Truth]

Seems to be plenty in Ohio. Miami and Nfld . Mostly full fields [often with added entries]

[Parked]

Yonkers has several short fields too. 

[SwankToliverA]

Seems to be plenty in Ohio. Miami and Nfld . Mostly full fields [often with added entries]

And they race 15,16 races a night.

[rainman2]

their 8000 dollar purse is a lot better than monti, saratoga and pcd....the cheapies will flock to the swamp....

They better hope that they can go fast enough to make $$$.  In a 10 horse field, 5 won't make any $$$$$.  The cheap races will help the purse account and the bettors don't care whether it's a 5000-7500 claimer or better races, they will bet it!!!

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

They better hope that they can go fast enough to make $$$.  In a 10 horse field, 5 won't make any $$$$$.  The cheap races will help the purse account and the bettors don't care whether it's a 5000-7500 claimer or better races, they will bet it!!!

M1 now pays all starters.

[rainman2]

M1 now pays all starters.

Sorry about that!

How many miles will the cheap ones come to race at the meadowlands?

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

My goodness. The 4th race at M was a $5,000-$7,500 claimer. What the heck is going on?

Apparently at M1 it doesn't matter if it is cheap cheap claimers and short fields. They are over 3 mill again tonight.

[wizardofoz]

The Yonkers FFA series ends soon and some horses will return to the Meadowlands.  The money they are saving on the purses now should allow them to increase them starting Kentucky Derby weekend.  This is the first time I can remember when the former LEVY series at Yonkers (MGM name now) had absolutely NO effect on the size of the Meadowlands fields or the handle, even with all tracks now open, so paying all finishers definitely helped them maintain the $3 million handles. Tetrick has only 28 drives at the Meadowlands this entire year and the bettors could not care less. Night's Handle: $3,250,963.64

[Locked in with pace]

last night's handle proved another false fact that they need 10 horse fields to bet over $3 million.. They had 5 races with less than 8 horses and even one race had a 5-horse field for $5000-$7500. Of the 10 horse fields they had, one was an amateur race, one was a very low trackmaster race and the other 2 were the lowest condition races.  simply put, they don't attract the best horses around like years past.

[Harness racer]

Sad!  Long gone are the days of 75-100k claiming handicaps on Saturday nights.  I loved M1 then!